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dicots

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dicots.

Editorial note

Sometimes when it didn't seem to give a high accurate match it says 'dicots' for the family.

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Quick take

(botany) A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dicots gathered in one view.

noun

(botany) A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dicots.

noun

(botany) A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

Example sentences

1

Sometimes when it didn't seem to give a high accurate match it says 'dicots' for the family.

2

Evolving to a partially carnivorous diet in plants is a very rare event even among dicots.

3

You know, I never considered that almost all plants we eat are angiosperms (flowering plants, monocots + dicots).

4

Cabbage is a dicot but not a tree - not all dicots are trees.

5

Many dicots use wind pollination, but most of the ones that make fruit we can eat are insect-pollinated.

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Years ago they were classified as dicots, but they made that group polyphyletic.

7

How do you call all the short-lived, green dicots growing in the meadows?

8

Maybe you misinterpreted my parent comment as me suggesting all dicots were trees?

9

Describing this plant as a mix of a pine and an apple is a particularly poor choice having in mind that this is a monocot, thus neither directly related with coniferes nor with dicots.

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Many dicots are wind-pollinated, including a lot of temperate zone trees, but the familiar useful ones are, generalising wildly, insect-pollinated.

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(Monocots and Dicots split ~140-150 Myr ago [0], Arthropoda and Chordata about ~1000 Myr ago [1]) (I initially thought the Monocots/Dicots split was further back...

12

It will kill any dicots you grow in that manure.

Quote examples

1

It's always dicots." Too often, pointing Seek at a plant results in "dicots", which is about half the flowering plants out there.

2

My wife and I have a running joke about the Seek app: "Dicots.

3

"Dicots" is not a category with any significance.

Proper noun examples

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Dicots are a sub-domain of angiosperms (flowering plants).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dicots in a sentence?

Sometimes when it didn't seem to give a high accurate match it says 'dicots' for the family.

What does dicots mean?

(botany) A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

What part of speech is dicots?

dicots is commonly used as noun.